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Main Boards => The Shooters FORM Board => Topic started by: Andy Diggs on March 12, 2009, 01:48:00 PM
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Around twenty years ago when I was out shooting in the yard a guy delivering a piano next door came over and told me he was state champ back in the sixties and I needed to shoot 3under if I was ever going to be any good. I tried it and went back to split...anyhow I don't keep up with the big 3d shoots. Is Rick Welch shooting 3under unusual ? Are there comparably good split finger shooters in the major tournaments?
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Fransisco Flecha,Kieth Bain,Ken Redding,Brain Bishop,Jack Rhudy,Howard Hill just to name a few.
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Thanks Bill...I don't keep up with tournament shooting and i guess I was just wondering if it was dominated by three under shooters.
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Do you shoot split Bill?
Ernie
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I think you can add Bill Leslie to that list as well!
How are you doig Bill?
Steve
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Dave Wallace, the 2008 IBO longbow World Champion, and Randy Irvine, the 2008 IBO World Champ. in the Recurve Unlimited class both shoot 3-under.
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Yes sir a Bill is lights out shooter , how ya been Bill...hope ya might come shoot down my way again buddy. mark
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Beware of those 'my way or the highway' folks.
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I'm no champ of any sort, I'm not even a good shot. My most recent score on the 3D course is 147 on a 20 target course. That being said, being just an average Joe, my accuracy is way different shooting split finger vs. 3 under. I started out shooting 3 under when I got into this just two years ago, and that's how I'll shoot from now on.
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There's no reason why you can't accomplish your goal either way....there's plenty of great split finger shooters out there.....
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Howard Hill shot split.....RC
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Well ,Howard had tried all those methods years ago.He says in Hunting the Hard way 3 under will bring the arrow up just under the dominant eye and so the line up to the target is much easier to see and accuracy/precision should be better.Hill ran into some great formal archer that bested his shots at static set ranges. So he then suggested changing things up -adding some difficult shots. I dont know whether that was moving targets or unknown distances or timed speed shots but he blew past all of them with his split fingered style.For me I just dont like the lack of control with 3 under.So I sacrifice a bit of accuracy for that. Everything is a trade off I guess.
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Not to sound too dumb on the subject but until I really got into trad. archery over the last few years I didn't even know 3 fingers under even existed! At the local elementary school they have a turkey shoot each year which I help at and in gym class they teach them all the 3 under technique. I have never even tried it....I guess that gives me something to do this afternoon.
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I agree with TERRY.
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Keith Bain is an awesome shot split finger. He has over the years many times posted the highest score for a tournament shooting a longbow with wood arrows. Depends on what works for you!
Jeff Schulz